How Did [People in] the Medieval Era Transition Into the Renaissance?

Question

How did people recover? How did the economy rise again? Can anyone please explain this to me?

Answer 1

Hard to answer your question, because it's based on a mistaken assumption.

You ask about "recovering" and the economy "rising again". But this assumes that things were a great mess before the Renaissance, and that is simply untrue!!

This is just one of many mistaken ideas about the state of things in "the Middle Ages". As a matter of fact, long BEFORE the Renaissance, progress was being made on ALL fronts -- including scholarship and the beginnings of the scientific method (esp. the beginning of the university system), economic structures, trade, inventions (agricultural, navigational, building, etc).

For that matter, the Renaissance was restricted to a revival of certain classical works (mostly writing). It was NOT the 'revival of learning', but just one piece of something that had been going on for centuries.. And it had NOTHING to do with the economy!

A few things to look at:

On the development of modern banking structure (such as the joint stock company, banking ,etc) DURING the Middle Ages:

(12th to 13th century) The foundations of the modern system of investment, including stock companies and "limited liability" (basis of wealth-producing sytems, including modern capitalism)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_market#History

medieval origins of the "joint stock company"
http://szabo.best.vwh.net/jointstock.html

"The Rise of Commerce and Towns" (ca. 1000)
http://www.ku.edu/kansas/medieval/108/lectures/towns.html

As for scholarship (what the "Renaissance" was about), note the following by Rodney Stark:

"The Italian “Renaissance” was not a “rediscovery” of classical learning. Rather, it was a period of cultural emulation during which people of fashion copied the classical style in manners, art, literature, and philosophy. Out of passion for their own ancient days of glory, explains French historian Régine Pernaud, Italians began to claim that Western history consisted of “two periods of light: antiquity and the Renaissance...and between the two...crude centuries and obscure times.” Thus, from fashionable enthusiasm and ethnic pride was born the notion of a dark age followed by a dawning of a new enlightenment. But, it wasn’t so. Scholastic scholars knew and understood the works of Plato, Aristotle, and all the rest."

http://www.taemag.com/issues/articleid.17713/article_detail.asp

Answer 2

adequate of the princes and pricks and clergymen died off in crusades and combating one yet another to leave the human beings on my own and enable them construct issues, improve issues, and function children. The black death probable helped, because it spread human beings out faraway from cities, and it made demanding artwork extra effectual, so the IIC (Idiots in cost) weren't as likely to tug them off to conflict each and every couple of years. fortuitously, the Moors (Islamic countries) had saved THEIR libraries (while Christians burned the whole ones contained in the West), and some pupils and travellers picked up a number of the particular issues about technology and arithmetic and humanity to deliver again and get Europe again on its effective ft again. in the meantime, the Catholic Church were given over their ban on usury(lending and borrowing funds and charging interest) in basic terms adequate to lease Jewish accountants to save track of their funds and Templars to guard it. the hot prosperity flowed into Italy first, the position the privelidged households (like the Medici) used the wealth to pimp themselves and their houses with artwork and spread funds round for technology and thoughts. The Catholic Popes were given a lot funds they grew to develop into corrupted by employing it, ensuing in Martin Luther's disgust with them and the Protestant Reformation. had to operate a P.S. or it would not come at the same time: the reason the money flowed into the Church (and Italy) first is that the Holy Roman Empire, by the concessions of kings to get endorsements for Crusading, owned quite some the wool production in Europe. Wool develop into severe for warmth outfits, as Europe develop into cooling down round that element, also. This further huge wealth to the monasteries and church homes who were the landlords of the pastures and the sheep.

Answer 3

they rediscovered the teachings of ancient cultures through "books and literature" that heretofore were only available to the scribes and monks who saw to the educations of the wealthy and the rich rulers children to prepare them to administer their fiefs and kingdoms as "rome and greece" had successful administered their civilizations and industries!!careful notation in business,precise record-keeping,forecasting trends of production in crops and services!!the way to build lasting and permanent structures of stone and concrete,brick and mortat;instead of rubble,wood,mud and straw;as found in architectural and engineering treatises!!!mathematics and the principle of arithmatic in business and building applications was taught more widely than before!!crafts and arts were committed to writing so that others could learn them and prosper by their own effoerts without llong apprenticeships!!!!schools rose up everywhere to guide the populouses to prosper!!!art flourished!!

Answer 4

vis-a-vis trading. Venice was key to the rennaisance and it was trade that made the Venice wealthy.